unanimously taught. With them, in all things, this my epistle agrees. Moreover, this should be pointed out, not in words only, but by stating and expounding what formally was taught; that the faithful may understand that what they now hear, those Fathers received from their predecessors, and delivered to their successors." Ep. ciii. ad Proter. Episc. Alex. p. 645.
THE CHURCH CATHOLIC, OR UNIVERSAL.
SCRIPTURE.
Malachi[1] i. 11. From the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean offering; for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of Hosts."
Matt. xxiv. 14. “ And this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, for a testimony to all nations; and then shall the consummation come.” Ibid. xxviii. 19. “Go ye therefore and teach all nations."
Mark xvi. 15. “Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”
Acts i. 8. “You shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth.”
Rom. x. 17, 18. “ Faith then cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. But I say, have they not heard? Yes, verily their sound hath gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the whole world.”
- ↑ Malachi was the last of the Prophets, and flourished after the building of the second temple, and about 400 years before Christ.
